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Serbia: Caught Between the East and the West
Jan 9, 2008 | 16:27 GMT
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Summary
Ahead of the decisive Serbian Presidential elections on Jan. 20, rumors out of Serbia suggest that nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and pro-Western President Boris Tadic have made a crucial deal that will determine the fate of their parliamentary coalition. The deal makes political sense in the short term — it will keep the ultra-nationalist Radicals out of power — but in the long run, the alliance between Kostunica and Tadic is unsustainable.
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